Re: [libvirt] Question about PHP licencing for libvirt-php (php-libvirt for Fedora)

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote: > Hi, > I don't know who's the right person to ask so I'm posting this into > the libvir-list. We're going to have the libvirt-php package in > Fedora (but renamed to php-libvirt only) but I don't know about the > licencing. The licence in the SPEC file (by Lyre) is set to "PHP" > however the licence file describes the GPL licence. > > My question is whether somebody does know whether it's OK to write a > PHP extension under GPL licence or whether we need the PHP licence > for this. The PHP license is *not* GPL compatible https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PHP_License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses So, the libvirt-php module would have to be under either the PHP license, or something less restrictive.